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KASABIAN

Where Did All the Love Go? Columbia **

Where exactly is the love? The question has troubled pop philosophers from Will.i.am to Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway. In the hands of Tom Meighan (who is looking more like Neil from BBC2’s The Young Ones with each passing year) it is merely a prelude to the more burning question: “Whatever happened to the youth of this generation?” It vanished like the winter snow, apparently . .

DOVES

Winter Hill Heavenly Records ***

Speaking of winter, Doves are back with Winter Hill, the predictably solid but not earth- shattering second single from their Kingdom of Rust album. There’s a cool stunt cyclist in the video, but that’s pretty much where the excitement ends.

NOAH AND THE WHALE

The First Days of Spring Vertigo ****

Continuing on an unseasonal theme, this is the first single from Noah and the Whale’s third album, The First Days of Spring. It’s not quite as life-affirming as it’s title might lead you to expect, but it’s still rather impressive.

THE MURDER CLUES

Things That By Myself I Just Can't Find ***

The Murder Clues are a cheeky bunch of rock-pop scamps from Raheny in Dublin. Recorded when the band should have been studying for their mocks, Things That By Myself I Just Can’t Find is being rush-released in time to soundtrack their Leaving Cert result celebrations. Don’t go overboard, lads. www.allmusic. com/themurderclues

PETER DOHERTY

Broken Love Songs EMI ****

Music critics of the future will likely conclude that, by the time he released his first solo album in 2009, Peter Doherty’s chances of attaining rock immortality had long since been pissed away. That said, Grace/Wastelands isn’t that bad a record. Yes, Broken Love Songs is a rather maudlin ballad, but the co-writing credit for Doherty’s notorious associate, Peter “Wolfman” Wolfe, adds an appropriate undercurrent of menace.